This piece represents hope and courage during the pandemic. The patients and healthcare workers fighting and struggling to survive and eventually heal. The mental health strain on everyone involved and the heart to persevere. This piece includes discarded clean medical plastics collected by health care workers on the front lines during the Covid 19 Pandemic. Expired plastics, med vial lids, needle sheaths, Tube feed lids, dialysis clamps, lab tube lids, glass vials, ventilator tubing parts, and even 2 lids from the Pfizer vaccines.

Raised in south eastern Saskatchewan, Shawn has spent almost his entire life on the prairies. Shawn settled in Saskatoon while training with Nursing school and has spent his entire career in Saskatoon and has been in ICU since 2001. Presently he works in ICU at St. Paul’s hospital full time. Artistically, he works with various mediums. Lately, he has been blending his desire to repurpose and recycle materials by finding creative ways to turn them into art. Pounds of clean plastic waste are carelessly thrown away everyday in the hospital and Shawn has envisioned a way to get creative with these beautiful bold coloured pieces incorporating them into art pieces. Shawn was recently featured on CBC with his latest work.